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FOUR NEW GRIME KIDS


PHOTOS BY ALEX STURROCK
INTERVIEWS BY PRANCEHALL

Grime is going through a bit of a make-or-break period right now. Most of the better MCs have long given up trying to be grimey and are now doing pop songs with 80s revivalists and covering the Ting Tings (Dizzee) or taking their shirts off in videos and wearing chains and diamonds so fake they look like the ones that kids wear for a joke at fancy dress parties (Tinchy). Let’s not even mention aspiring kids’ TV presenter Skepta and his new best mate Timmy Mallett.

So thank God for a new breed of young grime artists coming along like sportswear-adorned John Connors to save the post-apocalyptic grime scene from dodgy electro beats, embarrassing dance routines and Jo Whiley’s Radio 1 show.


GRIMINAL
Age: 17
From: Greengate, east London
GCSEs: “Passed all of them”
What made you want to become a grime MC?

People like Kano and D Double would come to my house to do sets with my older brother Mak 10 and that. I would just sit outside the room and listen. I felt that it was just in me to be an MC. When I wrote my first lyric it felt so good. I can’t explain it really. I was supposed to grow up and be a DJ ’cos my brothers Marcus and Mak 10 are DJs.

What was your favourite subject in school?

It would have to be maths, you know. I just understood it, really. I had a natural understanding. I didn’t like English, although I’m a MC. I liked school though. 

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